Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Well, 2011 Has had it's big ups and big downs for us over here at the Acheron. We've had some of the most amazing gigs ever (NUNSLAUGHTER, YOUTH OF TODAY, HULL/NAAM) and we've also had a nearly unending war with the landlord. But when I look at that glass, it's more 'n half full to me! Check out what we've got in stock for the new year!

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

This past Friday, BEER & CABLE, AGITATOR, WORLD WAR IX, MISCEGENATOR, and ROTTER temaed up to play a show solely to raise money for the Acheron, helping to pay the large back rent debt and for some upcoming and much-needed renovations to the space. As some of you know, this summer has been really hard on us, with plumbing and sewer issues, raised rent, and low sales threatening to bring us the the brink of shuttering the place up. But we're searching hard for solutions. Lots of friends have come to our aid, booking fundraiser shows and parties. We will also be launching a kickstarter page this week so that those of you unable to attend can give whatever you can as well. The money you pledge will go toward paying down the back rent debt, replacing and repairing broken equipment, and renovating the space to fit more people more comfortably, and making the experience of seeing orplaying a show here ever better.

Thanks a ton to the bands that played, especially to BEER & CABLE for setting it up and showing time and again why they're the best punk band in New York, and HUGE THANKS to all the people who showed up and gave til it hurt...their heads the next morning!

Next The next fundraiser show will be October 28th with NATUR, HESSIAN, and PILGRIM. Sure to be a rager!

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Oh how I do love the Night Birds! This Friday 1000 Knives and Hardcore Gig Volume team up to give us an amzing example of current hardcore. GIVE from Maryland feature members of LION OF JUDAH, and love flowers. punishing but emotional (in a good way) hardcore the way they make it in DC. NIGHT BIRDS fucking rule. plain and simple. Hardcore. Punk. Surf. They nail it. Don't miss them or consider yourself a loser. DEVOTION from Seattle are brutal, mid tempo, angry fucking hardcore. this show is going to rule, and you are foolish if you miss it. And while we're at it, Ian at HGV is also bringing us the inimitable EASY ACTION on the 27th, with KICKING SPIT and FOSTER CARE. like whoa!

Friday, August 19, 2011

Our good friends and soul-rattling doom-meisters WINDHAND will be playing a FREE show tonight at The Acheron as part of the official afterparty for the TOXIC HOLOCAUST / HOLY GRAIL / KRUMBUMS / SALO show at Europa. Brooklyn lords of blackened sludge BELUS will be sharing the stage, making for a bowel rumbling evening of sludge. The show is FREE, but there is a $5 suggested donation, with all money going straight to the bands so please make sure you support them!

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Thursday, June 30, 2011

The punks keep going country, and we've got no problem with that. This Saturday Boston's LENNY LASHLEY brings his one man show of heartfelt, heartbreaking, and lawbreaking honky tonk to our stage, along with local favorite and dedicated Caps fan, REV. BRANDON HAYES. Get drunk and git rowdy!

fuck the cops. Guitar superstar and personal buddy Mike Schliebaum got nabbed by the pigs last sunday before the BEASTS OF NO NATION gig, preventing them from playing. we're sorry bro. Let's try again.

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Get stoked for a wild week of punk and metal mayhem!
Tonight we've got Louisville's MANSIONS with AFICIONADO and DAYBREAKER. Tomorrow don't dare to miss Czech grind legends SEE YOU IN HELL with Brooklyn death merchants MUTANT SUPREMACY, XBRANIAX, and GRUDGES. sure to be a total killer!

Thursday moshfest! THE CARRIER and CARPATHIAN deliver the punches along with locals DON'T GIVE A FUCK. Friday Carolina shredders COLOSSUS rip it up with CLEAN TEETH, and the saturday we have week number to of FINNISH HARDCORE MAYHEM featuring PAHAA VERTA and YDINPERHE. don't you dare miss any of these!

Saturday we have a NYCPUNK night of punk, pogo, and hardcore with Yo!Scunt, Retro Viral, Zombie Culture, Desensitized, and Second Best. soap up your hair and stud up your jacket for some East Village style!

When Bassist Eric Harris parted ways with Ohio coven-thrashers SKELETONWITCH, he went west. There he founded the proggy, neu-southern, and just plain rock n fuckin roll GYPSYHAWK. Unbelievably tight, melodic, harmonic, and balls out, GYPSYHAWK is one of the best rock n roll bands out there. Don't miss this show with Brooklyn hair farmers NATUR, Maine shredders HESSIAN, and NOLA blackened doom acolytes HIGH PRIEST.

What an epic party that was! Thanks so much to All the bands - BATILLUS, BEER & CABLE, DEFEATIST, MORTALS, TOURNAMENT, BAD DREAM, and TRENCHGRINDER for sounding so awesome, and thanks to all of you for coming out and making this the best night we've had yet! Here's to another year, and if you have any photos or videos from the BBQ or the show, please send them to me HERE. Kick ass!!

Thursday, April 28, 2011

We've got just 2 weeks until the Acheron's Birthday Party. It's an all night affair with BBQ and a TON of killer bands. HULL and BEER & CABLE had to drop off, but we got brutal doom favorites BATILLUS, just back from tour and with a bowel-rattling new LP out. Not to mention our closest friends in MUTANT SUPREMACY, DEFEATIST, MORTALS, BAD DREAM, TOURNAMENT, and the debut of grind crushers TRENCHGRINDER (members ATAKKE, MUTANT SUPREMACY, PATHOS). Best of all.. the whole thing is FREE!

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Spring and Summer is kicking off with TONS of killer shows at the Acheron!! Starting Just tomorrow, we've got the country / folk / honky tonk showcase of FLETCHER C. JOHNSON, THE GODDAMN RATTLESNAKE, and REV. BRANDON HAYES. Then friday City Lights bring us the anthemic punk stylings of YR SKULL MY CLOSET, CROWS ON VULTURES, BOT, and THOUGHT & MEMORY.

Next week brings us PYRRHON, RAMPANT DECAY, our favorite pop-punk duo SEXY CRIMES along with SPORTS BAR, CRAZY & THE BRAINS and NUCLEAR SANTA CLAUST. And not to be outdone, Georgia monsters of doom LET THE NIGHT ROAR crush our stage with SADGIQACEA, WIZARDRY and ARCHON.

phew!

and then, we got Montreal politicrust BONEBLACK with DEATH FIRST on Friday the 6th, CROSS-STITCHED EYES, LOST TRIBE, BRAIN KILLER!!!, and PANZRAM on the 7th, and top it all off with INTER ARMA, BASTARD SAPLING, and CASTAVET on Sunday the 8th. What a fucking weekend that'll be. get y'all's livers ready. It's gonna be a long summer.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Finally! We've been trying to get our good buddy and songwriter extrordinaire FLETCHER C JOHNSON to play at the Acheron since we opened, and at long last he's gonna do it this coming Wednesday, April 20th. Fletcher's hooky, catchy, bouncy folk pop is infectious to say the least, and we're ecstatic he's gonna play a show for us. And just as hard to get on our stage, but equally as amazing is THE GODDAMN RATTLESNAKE, featuring members of ACID TIGER and SEXY CRIMES. Raw ass honkey tonk. Opening this cavalcade of country is Rev. Brandon Hayes, who croons in the style of all your favorites. Come on out and get stoked!

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Vancouver's WHITE LUNG have been here before. They fucking rule. I could go on about them, but if you know them, you're not gonna miss this show, and if you don't, you'd better be here or cry yourself to sleep for being such a loser.

Monday, March 28, 2011

James at City Lights brings us another night of circle-pitting, floor-punching mayhem. LA's ALPHA & OMEGA (not to be confused with the sassy-haired christian emo sissies from jersey) evoke the best parts of classic NYHC with a modern hardcore vibe. The comparisons to fellow Angelinos TERROR are unmistakable. Put your hoods up and X up your hands (not too much though, we think you look better when you're drunk) for this rager. Also appearing are midwest mosh maniacs EXPIRE, TAKE OFFENSE, LEFT ALIVE, and CUT YOUR TEETH.

Wed, March 30th 8pm ALL AGES

and then on friday...

Providence's THE BODY are among our favorite bands to see live. ever. This will be their 3rd time gracing our stage, and I can't tell you how excited I am. Thunderous. Haunting. Explosive. This southern transplanted duo of destruction wage war on your soul and your ears. And if that's not enough...

Fucking WHITEHORSE are playing as well!! Melbourne's monolithic metal titans play their penultimate show of a full US tour, and I can't imagine a better place to play. These guys have been laying waste to the Aussie coast and the world for 7 years, and this is my personal first chance to see them. what a gig this will be. And not to be dismissed, Brooklyn psychdoomers and personal fave of mine BAD DREAM will be opening this show, as UNEARTHLY TRANCE has recently announced they will no longer be playing live. Stick around too, as Shanna and maybe some guests will be DJing a doomerific afterparty next door at the Anchored Inn!

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Most people equate norwegian metal with the black metal scene, but that means they're missing out on bands like ARABROT. to call them technical isn't quite accurate, nor is calling them noise. They're somewhere in between, existing in a realm of chaos and psychosis by their lonesome. They recently exposed themselves to the SXSW crowd, but now WE get them this sunday, along with portland crazy people and genius band namers WIZARD RIFLE.

this post may mke no sense, it's 10 in the morning and I'm drunk. come to this show. it will rip.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

March has indeed been kind to us. Not only do we have our bathrooms back (finally! jesus!) but we also have NON STOP KILLER SHOWS! Tonight we have a last-minute relocation of the VAMPILLIA and FASHION WEEK show. VAMPILLIA THE BRUTAL ORCHESTRA hail from Japan, and are purveyors of some of the most bizarre experimental soundtrack that you could think to label as music. Their recent 2 track album "Alchemic Heart" assaults the listener with strange and esoteric noises, screams and sirens reminiscent of the Boredoms. This show will be an all out attack on your senses.
Tonight! tuesday march 22nd doors 8pm $8 ALL AGES

Hailing from Miami, CAPSULE have been one of my personal favorites for a while. I had the pleasure of playing with them last year at the Cake Shop, but I'm more stoked, obviously, to have them here at the Acheron. To call them post-hardcore may be accurate, but doesn't do justice to the layered, brutal energy that hits you when you hear these guys play. Appearing with BLACK KITES, DIVORCE MONEY, and CLOSED//MOUTH

Friday, March 25th 8pm doors $8 ALL AGES

and finally, oh yes. oh fuck yes. NUNSLAUGHTER. In their first New York appearance in 10 years, the unholy goatfuckers from the midwest are coming here to rip you a new asshole. I really need say nothing more. If you miss this you are not metal.

Saturday, March 26th 7pm doors $15 ALL AGES

THERE ARE NO PRESALE TICKETS FOR THIS SHOW. SHOW UP EARLY IF YOU WANT TO GET IN AS THIS WILL CERTAINLY SELL OUT.

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Old friends of the house, Miss Shevaughn & Yuma Wray are a Chicago duo of incredible talent and ablity. Utilizing an americana arsenal of instrumentation - from banjo and guitar to keyboard, single kick drum and some manner of finger chime - these two put forth some of the most heart-wrenching, dark songwriting I've heard in a long time. We've coupled them with Northwest electro-ambient instrumentalist Young Bear - whose sonic textures wrap you up like a snuggy of drug-addled hums and whirs, and also with Brooklyn minimalists Cloaked, also know colloquially as the Montana Masback Mystical Experience. This side project of Tournament explores the more psychedelic areas the noise-rockers felt have been treading through over the past couple years. Come down and enjoy one of our rare quieter nights.

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Holy shit. Spring just keeps getting better and better. Ian at Hardcore Gig Volume has done it again, bringing us one of the most brutal gigs of the year. Sweden's MIASMAL and INTERNAL ROT, Austin's HATRED SURGE and MAMMOTH GRINDER, and the inimitable INNUMERABLE FORMS. What. The. FUCK!!

Monday, March 7, 2011

What a start we've gotten off to in March already! If you missed the sonic boom that was the LORD BY FIRE / WINDHAND / BAD DREAM show this past Saturday, well, you probably still have your hearing, but you weren't having fun, that's for sure. and now this Saturday, we've got Norwegian satanic doom lords ALTAAR sharing the stage with fellow norsk noisemakers DEATHCRUSH and New York doompsych warlords OCCULTATION.
SKANDI NOISE!!
This Saturday, March 12th 8pm ALL AGES!

And a little something for the punks: NY squat crust legends THULSA DOOM are celebrating the release of their complete discography by playing a weekend of shows on the east coast, finishing with an old school Sunday matinee at the Acheron! Also raging are ALL TORN UP, PLANNED COLLAPSE, and POPULATION ZERO. This show starts at 4pm. And hey punks, you still can't bring forties in, but we got you covered.
This Sunday, March 13th 4pm ALL AGES!

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Richmond doom stoners WINDHAND return to our stage this Saturday to pummel you with killer riffage. Drummer Ryan Wolfe also plays in Dixie warriors MIGHT COULD with TJ Childers, who rips heavy chops in compatriots LORD BY FIRE. And as if that wasnt enough, the bill is rounded out by our favorite local psychedelic warlords BAD DREAM. You could also come out to the Anchored Inn tonight, Thursday, and listen to BAD DREAM drummer Shanna White rip killer tunes! make a weekend of it!!

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

I can't believe it. It's nearly impossible. After 10 long years, the almighty NUNSLAUGHTER is returning to New York. The most prolific, sacrilegious, unholy battalion of death dealers is coming to OUR STAGE!!! Infernal hails to Ed at Wendigo for making this happen. And if that's not enough, they're sharing the stage with DISMA and MUTANT SUPREMACY.

fucking hell.

Saturday, March 26th 8pm ALL AGES
THERE ARE NO PRESALE TICKETS FOR THIS SHOW. YOU MUST SHOW UP EARLY TO GET IN. THIS WILL ABSOLUTELY SELL OUT.